Bethany started chat 44 hours ago Bethany was timed out 42 hours ago Ryan joined the chat 59 seconds ago Tenesha joined the chat 43 seconds ago nidhi joined the chat 37 seconds ago nidhi: hi Bethany Smith joined the chat mary tortual joined the chat Courtney joined the chat 48 seconds ago Tenesha: hello....last super saturday...yeah!!!!!!!!! nidhi: yayy! Chris joined the chat mary tortual: tell me about it!!! Chris: This is going well so far... nidhi: i changed my color mary tortual: you look much better in red...lol nidhi: thank :) lol Chris: Tenesha figured out the clicker...YEA!!!! mary tortual: lol Tenesha: i'm slow nidhi: it's saturday morning, it's ok Chris: No, you are "exceptional" Tenesha: there are some slower than me mary tortual: my students couldn't use this...none of them would pay attention... Chris: I'll get you some MODs, Tenesha nidhi: lol Tenesha: can i have them all.... chase joined the chat Chris: Chase! Tenesha: hi chase...how's the baby mary tortual changed name to mary chase: hey tenesha, he's awesome! so much fun now Tenesha: these clickers are cool Chris: Does anyone else in here have a smartboard in their room? mary: I do... nidhi: that looks like my classroom nidhi: the "graveyard" mary: I took a class to use it, but I don't utilize it like i should... Chris: I have a hard time talking other teachers into trying to use theirs. Chris: If the teacher has been teaching for 10 or more years...they're pretty set in their ways chase: i'm sure if i was teaching I would love to use it mary: I use it everyday to put up the bell-ringer mary: and objectives... nidhi: i wish i had one! i don't even have a data projector all the time. i think i would use it a lot mary: I would use it more if I was more comfortable with it...I get frustrated too quickly and just move on Tenesha: not teaching yet...but i would like to take a crash course mary: I try to use the "shade" feature and I can't get it to work half the time.. Chris: I teach math and it makes using Algebra tiles much easier nidhi: how often do u let your students come up to use it? ot is it mostly just you? Chris: everyday nidhi: yeah i can see it work well in a math classroom Tenesha: i need tutoring on the smartboard for math Chris: I am sitting right next to you...you could just ask Tenesha: off topic...is it just me or is it cold in here/ nidhi: yess Ryan: it is nidhi: i was just going to say my fingers are ice cold mary joined the chat 10 seconds ago mary: I just got kicked out....:( Chris: you need a better fake id mary: .so I do let the students use it when we do vocabulary charades or jeopardy nidhi: oh that's a cool idea mary: I teach English and they are reading books more than needing to write on the board mary: lol @chris... Chris: Jeopardy is good, but I try not to use it much because it is sort of passive for the students. I want them to be up at the board and doing more than picking a category mary: I did learn that you have to have the "tools" bar open all the time in order for the board to work correctly mary: definitely...Vocabulary charades is the better use of it for them. Plus it keeps them engaged because the room is silent and they have to write their guess and mary: it corrrectly mary: spell it correctly... nidhi: so you give them the definition of a word and they have to write it out on the board? mary: I have also used it for interactive readings of some poems... mary: I give them slips of paper with the definitions and the word...groups of two. The students have to decide how they are going to act out the word as a group, without talking. they can write what they want to do, but no talking mary: Than each group presents their word, acting it out. they tell the class when they are done acting it out (by using a sign that they are done), then they choose a student to come up and write the word on the board mary: No talking...throughout the entire game nidhi: that's a great idea, i'm going to use that in my french class :) mary: I give 5 extra credit points for every correct answer Ryan joined the chat mary: I don't even speak once I tell them we are getting started... mary: I even write on their paper when they have questions... mary: I saw this at my New Teacher Orientation for Cumberland County Schools...It is pretty cool Chris: Presentations like this just make me want to tell the kids to bow down to our new Chinese and Indian overlord...may they be merciful nidhi: yes i do that when they are doing classwork, sometimes they are so lazy to write anything! they tell me i make them write more than any other class that they have mary: good for you!! nidhi: go India! Chris: I like naan and cashew chicken...I'm good for the future mary: lol nidhi: lol chase: forget the chinese we'll be taken over by AI soon nidhi: i was JUST going to say that chase Tenesha: @nidhi...keep doing what you are doing. I've noticed a lot of kids want instant gratification Tenesha: what was here question? Tenesha: 'her" Ryan: What do you think about that (was the ?) Chris: Ryan! How are the cockroaches? Ryan: Breeding mary: lol nidhi: eww Chris: Thank you for that creepy thought Ryan: anytime Chris: how many of you have students without access to computers? mary: wow...I thought there was more English than that.. Ryan: Several of mine do not have a computer at home. Ryan: Most do though. mary: there were printed books long before computers nidhi: many of mine do nidhi: many of mine do not* have computers either mary: Exactly Ryan...I'm having a hard enough time getting them to access computers to write research papers nidhi: my students that do use the internet for projects list "google" as their source Ryan: I have found out from a parent that at least one student that claimed not to have a computer at home was lying, though. nidhi: they have never been taught how to cite sources mary: have students "edit" Wikipedia...that's a great idea... nidhi: don't get me started on plagiarism Ryan: Most college students have no clue how to correctly cite sources (in my experience), much less high school students. mary: That is what we are doing...their Junior project... mary: It's a research paper...they are supposed to have citations...I have reviewed how multiple times, and they are still not doing it Tenesha: that's a shame...it seems like a lot of things we were taught are either not being or taught or there is no time in the curriculum to teach mary: It's not that they are not being taught...they are just too lazy to actually do it correctly nidhi: i don't understand where they are picking up these bad habits from. remember the old MLA handbooks we had? Uggh I hated bibliography but it's something that is ingrained in my mind mary: exactly...and now there are programs that will do the works cited for them. Remeber footnotes? they don't have to do that at all... nidhi: mary- is that not part of the scos anymore? Tenesha: they're not made sit down and do the work and really understand what they are doing mary: For the MLA, they cite just paranthetically...they don't have to footnote like we had to back in the day nidhi: I feel like they expect to be entertained more than to be educated Tenesha: i still my MLA book from college mary: same here nidhi: me too Tenesha: @ nidhi...that's a good point nidhi: ugggh i'm fighting for a smartboard in my classroom! mary: I wish they would put my SmartBoard projector in the ceiling...the kids constantly bump the cart and I constantly have to recalibrate it... mary: but I'm not complaining too much...at least I have onne nidhi: our school got 20 from a grant, and of course foreign language also gets the shaft :-/ nidhi: always* not also mary: awwww...that stinks... mary: I took an online professional development course on a Moodle nidhi: oh cool nidhi: did you like it? mary: where they come up with these names is crazy mary: I did...it seemed more intricate than the wiki I have seen mary: there you go...Moodle nidhi: i hate the word moodle nidhi: I don't know why mary: lol mary: exactly...I have teachers that have been there for years and don't want to hear anything new nidhi: same here Tenesha: good question Chris nidhi: one of my friends works at the Friday Institute, it's a cool building Tenesha: i'm listening to Bethany say name the counties in NC that are 1:1, most of them are smaller counties. i've not heard her mention any of the larger counties or school systems nidhi: mr. mac mary: because it would cost too much mary: most one to one schools are private or there are only a few schools in that county mary: glad she is done in here...my battery is done...lol nidhi: that makes sense, it's easier to start with smaller counties I suppose Tenesha: so is mine Ryan: Large school systems usually have far too many administrative costs, etc. to allocate a large portion of their budget to any one thing that is not absolutely necessary. nidhi: bon appetit!
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Tenesha: hello....last super saturday...yeah!!!!!!!!!
nidhi: yayy!
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mary tortual: tell me about it!!!
Chris: This is going well so far...
nidhi: i changed my color
mary tortual: you look much better in red...lol
nidhi: thank :) lol
Chris: Tenesha figured out the clicker...YEA!!!!
mary tortual: lol
Tenesha: i'm slow
nidhi: it's saturday morning, it's ok
Chris: No, you are "exceptional"
Tenesha: there are some slower than me
mary tortual: my students couldn't use this...none of them would pay attention...
Chris: I'll get you some MODs, Tenesha
nidhi: lol
Tenesha: can i have them all....
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Chris: Chase!
Tenesha: hi chase...how's the baby
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chase: hey tenesha, he's awesome! so much fun now
Tenesha: these clickers are cool
Chris: Does anyone else in here have a smartboard in their room?
mary: I do...
nidhi: that looks like my classroom
nidhi: the "graveyard"
mary: I took a class to use it, but I don't utilize it like i should...
Chris: I have a hard time talking other teachers into trying to use theirs.
Chris: If the teacher has been teaching for 10 or more years...they're pretty set in their ways
chase: i'm sure if i was teaching I would love to use it
mary: I use it everyday to put up the bell-ringer
mary: and objectives...
nidhi: i wish i had one! i don't even have a data projector all the time. i think i would use it a lot
mary: I would use it more if I was more comfortable with it...I get frustrated too quickly and just move on
Tenesha: not teaching yet...but i would like to take a crash course
mary: I try to use the "shade" feature and I can't get it to work half the time..
Chris: I teach math and it makes using Algebra tiles much easier
nidhi: how often do u let your students come up to use it? ot is it mostly just you?
Chris: everyday
nidhi: yeah i can see it work well in a math classroom
Tenesha: i need tutoring on the smartboard for math
Chris: I am sitting right next to you...you could just ask
Tenesha: off topic...is it just me or is it cold in here/
nidhi: yess
Ryan: it is
nidhi: i was just going to say my fingers are ice cold
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mary: I just got kicked out....:(
Chris: you need a better fake id
mary: .so I do let the students use it when we do vocabulary charades or jeopardy
nidhi: oh that's a cool idea
mary: I teach English and they are reading books more than needing to write on the board
mary: lol @chris...
Chris: Jeopardy is good, but I try not to use it much because it is sort of passive for the students. I want them to be up at the board and doing more than picking a category
mary: I did learn that you have to have the "tools" bar open all the time in order for the board to work correctly
mary: definitely...Vocabulary charades is the better use of it for them. Plus it keeps them engaged because the room is silent and they have to write their guess and
mary: it corrrectly
mary: spell it correctly...
nidhi: so you give them the definition of a word and they have to write it out on the board?
mary: I have also used it for interactive readings of some poems...
mary: I give them slips of paper with the definitions and the word...groups of two. The students have to decide how they are going to act out the word as a group, without talking. they can write what they want to do, but no talking
mary: Than each group presents their word, acting it out. they tell the class when they are done acting it out (by using a sign that they are done), then they choose a student to come up and write the word on the board
mary: No talking...throughout the entire game
nidhi: that's a great idea, i'm going to use that in my french class :)
mary: I give 5 extra credit points for every correct answer
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mary: I don't even speak once I tell them we are getting started...
mary: I even write on their paper when they have questions...
mary: I saw this at my New Teacher Orientation for Cumberland County Schools...It is pretty cool
Chris: Presentations like this just make me want to tell the kids to bow down to our new Chinese and Indian overlord...may they be merciful
nidhi: yes i do that when they are doing classwork, sometimes they are so lazy to write anything! they tell me i make them write more than any other class that they have
mary: good for you!!
nidhi: go India!
Chris: I like naan and cashew chicken...I'm good for the future
mary: lol
nidhi: lol
chase: forget the chinese we'll be taken over by AI soon
nidhi: i was JUST going to say that chase
Tenesha: @nidhi...keep doing what you are doing. I've noticed a lot of kids want instant gratification
Tenesha: what was here question?
Tenesha: 'her"
Ryan: What do you think about that (was the ?)
Chris: Ryan! How are the cockroaches?
Ryan: Breeding
mary: lol
nidhi: eww
Chris: Thank you for that creepy thought
Ryan: anytime
Chris: how many of you have students without access to computers?
mary: wow...I thought there was more English than that..
Ryan: Several of mine do not have a computer at home.
Ryan: Most do though.
mary: there were printed books long before computers
nidhi: many of mine do
nidhi: many of mine do not* have computers either
mary: Exactly Ryan...I'm having a hard enough time getting them to access computers to write research papers
nidhi: my students that do use the internet for projects list "google" as their source
Ryan: I have found out from a parent that at least one student that claimed not to have a computer at home was lying, though.
nidhi: they have never been taught how to cite sources
mary: have students "edit" Wikipedia...that's a great idea...
nidhi: don't get me started on plagiarism
Ryan: Most college students have no clue how to correctly cite sources (in my experience), much less high school students.
mary: That is what we are doing...their Junior project...
mary: It's a research paper...they are supposed to have citations...I have reviewed how multiple times, and they are still not doing it
Tenesha: that's a shame...it seems like a lot of things we were taught are either not being or taught or there is no time in the curriculum to teach
mary: It's not that they are not being taught...they are just too lazy to actually do it correctly
nidhi: i don't understand where they are picking up these bad habits from. remember the old MLA handbooks we had? Uggh I hated bibliography but it's something that is ingrained in my mind
mary: exactly...and now there are programs that will do the works cited for them. Remeber footnotes? they don't have to do that at all...
nidhi: mary- is that not part of the scos anymore?
Tenesha: they're not made sit down and do the work and really understand what they are doing
mary: For the MLA, they cite just paranthetically...they don't have to footnote like we had to back in the day
nidhi: I feel like they expect to be entertained more than to be educated
Tenesha: i still my MLA book from college
mary: same here
nidhi: me too
Tenesha: @ nidhi...that's a good point
nidhi: ugggh i'm fighting for a smartboard in my classroom!
mary: I wish they would put my SmartBoard projector in the ceiling...the kids constantly bump the cart and I constantly have to recalibrate it...
mary: but I'm not complaining too much...at least I have onne
nidhi: our school got 20 from a grant, and of course foreign language also gets the shaft :-/
nidhi: always* not also
mary: awwww...that stinks...
mary: I took an online professional development course on a Moodle
nidhi: oh cool
nidhi: did you like it?
mary: where they come up with these names is crazy
mary: I did...it seemed more intricate than the wiki I have seen
mary: there you go...Moodle
nidhi: i hate the word moodle
nidhi: I don't know why
mary: lol
mary: exactly...I have teachers that have been there for years and don't want to hear anything new
nidhi: same here
Tenesha: good question Chris
nidhi: one of my friends works at the Friday Institute, it's a cool building
Tenesha: i'm listening to Bethany say name the counties in NC that are 1:1, most of them are smaller counties. i've not heard her mention any of the larger counties or school systems
nidhi: mr. mac
mary: because it would cost too much
mary: most one to one schools are private or there are only a few schools in that county
mary: glad she is done in here...my battery is done...lol
nidhi: that makes sense, it's easier to start with smaller counties I suppose
Tenesha: so is mine
Ryan: Large school systems usually have far too many administrative costs, etc. to allocate a large portion of their budget to any one thing that is not absolutely necessary.
nidhi: bon appetit!